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Troy University has been recognized by Princeton Review, U.S. News and World Report, Military Times and more as having some of the best undergraduate programs in the Southeast and nation. Whether you are graduating from high school, transferring from a two-year school, or completing your degree as a working adult, TROY offers a wide variety of associate and baccalaureate degrees that will open doors to career opportunities.

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Graduate Programs

Graduate study can help you achieve your career goals! Holders of advanced degrees will be in high demand in the next 10 years, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and U.S. Census data shows that advanced degrees increase pay and prosperity Troy University’s Graduate School offers advanced degrees in all five of the University’s academic colleges: education, business, arts and sciences, health and human services, and communication and fine arts. In addition, TROY’s commitment to flexibility means that you have in-class, online and blended options. Plan for your next career by completing your graduate education at TROY. Innovation, knowledge and creativity are all elements for success. Get started today!

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Campus visits are the most important aspect of the college decision making process. Visits give you the opportunity to discover what makes our unique University the right fit for you. TROY welcomes you to come and see what makes our campus different, one that you will want to consider your home away from home.

We invite you to register for a visit Monday - Friday at 10:00 a.m. or 2:00 p.m. or on specified Saturdays for a TROY Tour or Trojan Day event.

*Students interested in visiting other Alabama campuses must contact the specific campus for visit information and registration as available dates and times vary.

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TROY Service Centers

TROY Service Centers meet the needs of working adults, including military, government agency civilians, teachers and future business leaders who want the opportunities that come with earning a degree. Because adult learners often have different educational needs than traditional students, courses are provided at times and in formats designed around people who work and have other commitments for their time.

TROY Online

Are you curious about learning in the online environment? Would you like to take an online class, but feel that you need more information? Discover more about learning in the online environment, the skills and technologies that are required, as well as some helpful tips on how to become a successful online student.

Common Reading Initiative

Common Reading Initiative

What is the Common Reading Initiative?

The First-Year Common Reading Initiative (CRI) is a program for first-year students new to the University. Students are asked to read a common book the summer before their entry into the University. The CRI was implemented on the Troy Campus of Troy University during Fall Semester 2007. The goals of the initiative for first-year students are to promote reading and discussion, foster integrated learning, support classroom instruction, and encourage participation in campus, civic, and service-learning activities.

Initiative Outcomes for the Common Reading Initiative

First-Year students will read the CRI book selected annually.

First-Year students will participate in discussion groups (face to face and electronic) regarding the CRI selection.

Faculty and staff will participate as group leaders for the discussion groups regarding the CRI selection.

Faculty and staff will report satisfaction or satisfaction-plus with their involvement as group leaders in the discussion groups regarding the CRI selection.

Faculty will choose to use the CRI selection in courses other than TROY 1101, especially General Studies courses.

Faculty and students will participate annually in CRI-related activities beyond the discussion groups and academic classes (such as TROY 1101).

The Common Reading Initiative will support the six QEP learning outcomes.

Recommendation Form

Please return the completed form to:

Hal Fulmer, Dean
First-Year Studies
101 Eldridge Hall

Selected Books:

2013 – 2014

To the Last Breath is a work by Georgetown physics professor Francis Slakey detailing his adventures climbing the highest mountain on every continent and surfing in every ocean. This “surf and turf” adventure began as simply a way to pass time and amuse himself. Ensuing events, however, cause Slakey, who describes himself in the beginning as isolated and cold, to examine himself and his approach to life; he learns that the world is interconnected, that we are all involved with each other in one way or another, whether we know it or not. As a result of his about-face, he has established the Georgetown Program on Science in the Public Interest, a program that helps students identify problems in the world and then join with students in other disciplines to help solve those problems. At least for Slakey, we are indeed our brother’s keeper.

2012 – 2013

The Ghost Map is the chilling story of urban terror, but it is also a story of how scientific understanding can advance in the most hostile of environments. In a triumph of dynamic, multidisciplinary thinking, Steven Johnson examines the epidemic from the microbial level to the human level to the urban level. Brilliantly illuminating the intertwined histories of the spread of disease, the rise of cities, and the nature of scientific inquiry, Johnson presents both vivid history and a powerful, provocative explanation of how it has shaped the world we live in.

2011 – 2012

In his first novel in more than a decade, award-winning author David Malouf remakes the pivotal narrative of Homer's Iliad—one of the most famous passages in all of literature. This is the story of the relationship between two grieving men at war: fierce Achilles, who has lost his beloved Patroclus in the siege of Troy; and woeful Priam, whose son Hector killed Patroclus and was in turn savaged by Achilles. A moving tale of suffering, sorrow, and redemption, Ransom is incandescent in its delicate and powerful lyricism and its unstated imperative that we imagine our lives in the glow of fellow feeling.

2010 – 2011

Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus, a classic by Mary Shelley, was selected as the 2010–2011 common reader. As noted by Dr. Ben Roberson, the Troy University English professor who recommended the book, Frankenstein "deals with a normal human fear about what happens when science potentially goes too far. Victor has power over life and death, but the life he creates then tries to destroy him. The idea can relate to cloning and other genetic manipulation, computer networks and their impact, and even plastic surgery and its effects."

2009 – 2010

Janisse Ray's Ecology of a Cracker Childhood was chosen for the 2009–2010 AY. Ray's book is the first nonfiction book chosen for TROY's reading initiative. Recounting Ray's experiences of growing up in a junkyard off U.S. Highway 1, the book interweaves family history and memoir with natural history writing, in particular descriptions of the ecology of the vanishing longleaf pine forests that once covered the South. Ray's colloquial, elegiac, and informative language enhances the book's appeal. The book won the American Book Award, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern environment.

2008 – 2009

The 2008–2009 common book, A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J. Gaines, was selected in early April 2008. The Dean of First-Year Studies, on behalf of the selection committee, presented a written justification and a copy of the book to the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor/Provost, members of the First-Year Advisory Board, and other faculty and staff. An announcement was sent to the University Community. Feedback from the community was very positive. Campus-wide discussion groups gave new freshmen the opportunity to met their classmates, interact with a faculty or staff member, and discuss their experience with the book. Other activities included a theater production of A Lesson Before Dying and an essay contest. Several faculty members incorporated the novel into their coursework.

2007 – 2008

The Road by Cormac McCarthy was chosen as the inaugural book for the CRI. All new first-year students were asked to read the book before the start of classes on August 15, 2007. At the annual training seminar for instructors of the freshman orientation course, TROY 1101, an English professor discussed possible topics for discussion of The Road. The seminar was open to faculty, staff, and students. It was decided that students would receive credit through the orientation class for participating in activities related to the book. At each discussion session and the panel discussion, attendance cards were handed out to students to present to their orientation instructor. Some orientation classes followed up with further discussion of the book, and first-year courses in English, history, and biology integrated the book into the coursework.

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